Cragin focuses on jewelry, Blamo does jewelry and sculpture, and Kahn is showing some of her encaustic paintings, a technique which uses heat to melt resin and beeswax that in this case results in rust-colored pieces that echo Fitchburg's industrial heyday.

The essayist and artist Mimi Thompson describes Berger's encaustic paintings as palimpsests, "the ancient wax tables that were used again and again, with messages scraped away and new ones laid on top.

Caring for stone sculpture, the full variety of metal objects, ceramic vases, engraved gemstones and organic materials ranging from amber and ivory to textiles and encaustic paintings are all part of their daily work.

Michael David's most recent abstract encaustic paintings are eloquently deceptive: What looks at first like wispy atmosphere--elusive surges of color against an amorphous ground--is on closer inspection revealed to be a tactile, heavily built-up surface.

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